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GLEBA

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Dictionary entry overview: What does gleba mean?

• GLEBA (noun)
The noun GLEBA has 1 sense:

1. fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn

Familiarity information: GLEBA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GLEBA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("gleba" is a kind of...):

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

Holonyms ("gleba" is a part of...):

sporophore (a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte)

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